Nov 14, 2012


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Flagstaff Almanac:  Week: 46/ Day:    
Today: High   55°…Low 15°
Records: High   70°(1967)…Low -5°(1985)
Averages: High  51° Low 23°
Wind: average:   3mph; Gusts:  16mph
Today’s average humidity:  48%
Quote of the Day:

Today’s Historical Highlights:
1st Catholic college in US, Georgetown, opens—1791
1st kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in NYC (New Amsterdam) —1660
1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins—1954
250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Wash DC against Vietnam War—1969
Colonization of Africa organized at Intl conference in Berlin—1884
Elvis Presley's 1st film "Love Me Tender," premieres—1956
NY General assembly permits Jews to omit phrase "upon the faith of a     Christian" from abjuration oath—1727
Pres Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran—1977
Research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber     addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes—1985
Series of fires kills 10 (Edinburgh Scotland) —1824
Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check—1939
Walt Disney Art School created—1932
Wendy's Hamburgers opens—1969

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
 Returns tomorrow
Free Rambling Thoughts:   
Started off as a nice day…then clouded up in the late afternoon. We had our weekly lunch today. We were going to go to Outback, but discovered that it didn’t open until 4pm—even though the paper had a coupon for a noon lunch special. Ended up across the street at Cracker Barrel. Good homey food and some great conversation. Cheryl is getting ready for Thanksgiving in CA, Mary will be in Phx. This year Thanksgiving sure is early. I’ve noticed that a few stores have said no Christmas decorations until Black Friday…good for them. None of these stores have outlets in Flagstaff. Here is Flag, the decorations come out a week or so before Halloween.
 
World hassles never seem to end…bombing in Gaza…scary. On the more humorous side, Patraeus’ mistress’ harassing e-mailer is asking for diplomatic protection from the press that has camped out in her neighborhood. Finally today the government pulled the mistress’ ‘all access’ pass to military bases.
Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)
Anagram Sentences:
What are the missing words?
The farmer was grave and ______ after the crops of ______ and Casaba ______ were ruined by pests.
Lifestyle  Substance:     
Unusual Uses for Everyday Things: BAKING SODA
  • Prevent and solve stinky feet by putting some baking soda in your shoes.
  • Put some baking soda on that brush and brush away to fresher breath!
  • To do some clean up. baking soda is great for cutting grease from that bacon marathon
  • Have some baking soda on hand to put out the grease fire you might start.
  • Ants seem not to like it when you put a trail of baking soda in their path.
  •  When it reacts with oil turns into soap! 
Old Saying Explained:
WHAT THE DICKENS!...This old saying does not come from the writer Charles Dickens (1812-1870). It is much older than him! It has been around since at least the 16th century. Originally 'Dickens' was another name for the Devil.
Ok, then?
  Returns tomorrow
TV Theme Songs you may remember:

Read This Headline Carefully!!
Child's Stool Great for Use in Garden
Sacred Mountains Around the World:

Celtic Music:
Celtic Irish Folk
Harper’s Index:         
Estimated percentage of jokes made by female managers that get laughs, according to a British study: 20
By male managers: 90
Ruminations:
Grocery shopping for one person involves way more flirting with expiration dates than I imagined
Unusual Fact of the Day:
The USA PATRIOT Act is an acronym that stands for "Uniting & Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept & Obstruct Terrorism."
Found on You Tube: 


Joke-of-the-day:
A 17 year-old Antartican boy was hired to paint a white line down the middle of the highway. On the first day, he got off to a good start and he painted a white line 7 miles long. The next day, however, he painted a line only 4 miles long. On the third day, he was down to less than a mile. Finally, his friend Max asked him why he was doing less each day. The boy replied, "I guess it takes me longer and longer to get back to the bucket each day."  
Rules of Thumb:   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
CHEMICAL WASTE…Gram for gram, it costs about 10 times as much to properly dispose of laboratory chemicals than it did to buy them in the first place.    
Yeah, It Really Happened
MARLBORO, Mass. - A Massachusetts man said he discovered more than $20,000 in a dumpster while looking for magazines to turn into art projects. The Marlboro man, a Brazilian immigrant who asked for his name not to be printed, said he visits the Wellesley dump about twice a week to search for magazines to turn into art, and during a visit last month he found a book with $20,000 to $30,000 pressed between its pages, WHDH-TV, Boston, Mass., reported Tuesday. The man said he is trying to find the rightful owner of the cash and has pledged to search for six months before deciding whether to keep the money.
"This book is a lot of history there," he said. "My point of view is, I want to see because if someone maybe who separated the money to buy a house, put a down payment for the house. What if that happened to me, if it was me? I'm going to go crazy, alright?"
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • There are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter.
  • There are about 3,000 hot dog vendors in metropolitan New York.
  • The loop on a belt that holds the loose end is called a "keeper."
  • The kings in a deck of cards each represent a great king from history. The king of spades is King David, the king of clubs is Alexander the Great, the king of hearts is Charlemagne, and the king of diamonds is Julius Caesar. 
  • The LEGO company was founded by Ole Kirk Christiansen in Billund,Denmark, in 1916. Today it has over 9,000 employees worldwide. The Danish words Leg and Godt were put together to make "LEGO." Later, it was discovered that in Latin, the term "Lego" means "I put together" or "I assemble."
  • "The Star-Spangled Banner," written by Francis Scott Key, is ranked the most difficult national anthem on Earth to sing.

Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
11-17 
American Education Week ►Geography Awareness Week ►National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week
12-18  
National Global Entrepreneurship Week ►World Kindness Week ►National Young Reader's Week

Today Is                                                                      
America Recycles Day
Great American Smokeout
Guinness World Record Day
I Love to Write Day
National Bundt (Pan) Day
National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day
Use Less Stuff Day
~Belgium Dynasty Day (1866 celebrations in honor of the Belgian monarch.)
~Brazil Republic Day (Commemorates end of Empire of Brazil and
      proclamation of the Brazilian Republic 1889)
~Japan Shichi-Go-San (celebration of kids aged 3, 5, 7)
Today’s Events through History  
1st US mines school opens in basement of Columbia University, NY—1864
American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh)—1881
Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress—1777
Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between 
     Pennsylvania & Maryland—1763
Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco—1492
Creek-Indians lose all their property in US—1827
Devastating Cyclone named Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 
     people and destroyed the world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans—2007
Funeral services held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid I Brezhnev—1982
Potawatomi sign a treaty. (12 stat.1191). The treaty sets aside some lands 
     for common tribal usage and other lands are set aside for individual Indians—1861
Producers confirm that Milli Vanilla didn't sing on their album—1990
Quapaw sign a treaty (7 stat. 23) and give up their claim to land between 
     the Arkansas Post and Little Rock, extending inland to the Saline River—1824
Sir Francis Drake aboard Pelican travels from Chile to Washington—1577
Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the 
     necessary royal concession—1854

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
In their 80’s
Ed Asner, actor is 83
Petula Clark, rock vocalist (Downtown, My Love) is 80
C. W. McCall, singer [hit song "Convoy"] is 84
In their 70’s
Sam Waterston, actor [Law and Order] is 72

Remembered for being born today
Felix Frankfurter, Vienna Aust, 80th Supreme Court Justice (1882-1965)
Curtis E Le May, air force general/VP candidate (1906-1990)
Marianne Moore, St Louis, poet (Pulitzer 1951, Collected Poems) (1872-1972)
Georgia O'Keefe, Sun Prairie Wisc, sculptor/painter (Cow's Skull) (1887-1986)
William Pitt the Elder, British Prime Minister `Great Commoner', (1708-1778)
Erwin Rommel, German fieldmarshal (WW II-African campaign) (1891-1944)
"Macho Man" Randy Savage, [Poffo], Sarasota FL, wrestler (1952-2011)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
Baby Fae [Stephanie Fae Beauclair], who received a baboon's heart—1984—at 3 weeks
Stokely Carmichael, American civil rights activist— prostate cancer—1998—at 57
Larry Evans, American chess grandmaster and journalist— gallbladder—2010—at 78
Alger Hiss, former alleged spy/lawyer—1996—at 92
Johann Kepler, German astronomer—1630—at 58
Margaret Mead, anthropologist (Thoughts & Female)— pancreatic cancer—1978—at 76

Answer: Anagram sentence
The farmer was grave and solemn after the crops of lemons and Casaba melons were ruined by pests.
Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site has mistakes and sadly once out the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
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Nov 14, 2012


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Flagstaff Almanac:  Week: 46/ Day: 319   
Today: High   49°…Low 15°
Records: High   72°(1967)…Low -3°(2000)
Averages: High  51° Low 24°
Wind: average:   6mph; Gusts:  23mph
Today’s average humidity:  44%
Quote of the Day:

Today’s Historical Highlights:
"Moby Dick," by Herman Melville, published—1851
"National Turn in Your Draft Card Day" features draft card burning—1968
1st US professional librarian, Louis Timothee, hired in Phila—1732
Albert Einstein presents quantum theory of light—1908
Disney's "Lion King" sets Broadway record of $2,700,000 daily sale—1997
FDR proclaims Philippine Islands a free commonwealth—1935
German planes destroy most of Coventry, England—1940
Maya King K'inich Yo'nal Ahk I (Ruler 1) ascends to the throne in 
     Piedras Negras, Mexico—603
OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), forms—1960
Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation—1896
US government sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam—1965
Yale University announces it is going co-educational—1968

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays

Free Rambling Thoughts:   
Started the day off at the dentist…getting my new crown. Fits fine. I told him my tooth was sore for almost a week after the temporary was put on. He said he wasn’t surprised. I told him I was. He is an experienced dentist, who just bought the practice and I have yet to decide if I will stay with him. Not sure why…just a gut feeling.
 
Gonna buy my Chicago ticket tomorrow morning…when there might be some lower prices. Can’t believe it is $700 as it was about $560 last year. Only good thing is ‘our’ motel is still at $91/night.
 
Got my roommate’s ticket to Uganda…NBD…I talked to him and we will simply trade them at the airport in Houston. I talked to Hamdy and another cool stop will be ‘on the equator’ where there is a stop that has a bucket of water. They put the bucket on the equator and no swirling, put it on either side and the water swirls in opposite directions…should be cool. I’ve been south of the equator before and seen the difference. This will just be cool, right on the equator.
 
I’m am freaking out with my GFI outlets. In this crazy place there are two GFI’s in the kitchen and one in the downstairs bath…however, somehow they are connected to the other two outlets in the kitchen and the two upstairs bathrooms. I have a regular outdoor front outlet that I shorted out on Halloween night. That somehow also shut off all the GFI’s. After resetting the breaker, some of the kitchen GFI’s and outlets work, others don’t. I finally called the maintenance guy and he came right over. He looked, shook his head, tripped all the breakers and turned them back on, shook his head and said that he would have to call an electrician friend to see what was going on. For me to be baffled is understandable. For him to be baffled is a little disconcerting. He’ll be back, hopefully tomorrow with some answers.
Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)
Anagram Sentences: 6 letter anagrams
What are the missing words?
It wasn't the ______ thing the entomologist said, but at least we learned sometimes ______ occurred in the ______ world.
Lifestyle  Substance:     
Unusual Uses for Everyday Things: TEA BAG
  • After staying up all night fighting zombies you'll need to freshen up your eyes. Put a wet tea bag on each eye for 20 minutes to freshen them up!
  • If your gums are bleeding, you can press a tea bag onto the bleeding area to stop the bleeding.
  • Every day, to prevent foot rot, you should soak your feet everyday in a tea bath to keep the healthy and fresh!
  • If your inoculation area hurts too much hold a tea bag there for 20 minutes to soothe the area.
  • Help cool down razor burn with a wet tea bag on the affected areas.
Old Saying Explained:
CUT AND RUN…In an emergency rather than haul up an anchor the sailors would cut the anchor cable then run with the wind.
Ok, then?

TV Theme Songs you may remember:
Rawhide - Ned Washington and Dimitri
Read This Headline Carefully!!
NJ Judge To Rule On Nude Beach
 Sacred Mountains Around the World:

Celtic Music:
THE CELTS!
Harper’s Index:         
  • Rank of rhinoplasty among the most common cosmetic surgical procedures performed on British men: 1
  • Rank of breast reduction: 2
Ruminations:
Why does the waitress expect a bigger tip when the meal was more expensive? Was it more effort to bring me a steak that it was to bring me a hamburger?
Unusual Fact of the Day:
You can actually get nicotine poisoning from absorbing the chemical through your skin (from wet tobacco leaves). The phenomenon is called Green Tobacco Sickness (GTS).
Found on You Tube: 


Joke-of-the-day:
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
 A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
 A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
 A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
Rules of Thumb:   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
SPOTTING FOOT PROBLEMS…A sneaker sole worn along the outer edge indicates flat feet. A sole worn along the inner edge indicates a high arch.    
Yeah, It Really Happened
Japanese contemporary artist Tatzu Nishino has transformed a public restroom in Osaka's Nakanoshima Park into a one-room hotel, Rocket News 24 reports. The newly-named "Nakanoshima Hotel" is part of the Osaka Canvas Project, a prefectural art event, and costs 10,000 yen (US $125) per night.
The luxurious-looking 22-square-meter room includes a shower, bed, and its own separate bathroom, according to Hotel Chatter.
The public restroom that surrounds the room is fully functional, and all the corollary sounds are fully audible to guests.
Even so, the one-room hotel is fully booked for the duration of the installation, primarily by hardcore fans of Nishino.
Fear not, though, there are plenty of other bizarre accommodations available worldwide. At the Jailhotel Löwengraben in Switzerland, you can settle in for the night inside a former prison cell.
And in Finland's Hotel Kakslauttanen & Igloo Village, you can put your feet up inside a glass igloo 250 miles inside the Arctic Circle.
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • Newer U.S. cities that have had room to "spread out" tend to have fewer (and smaller) skyscrapers. The tallest building in Phoenix, the sixth-most-populous American city with 1.5 million inhabitants, is only 40 stories tall.
  • Chinese architects have been reaching for the sky over the last two decades. In 1988, none of the nation's buildings ranked in the top 20 worldwide. Today, China claims 10 of the 20 tallest skyscrapers on the planet.
  • Besides the Sears Tower, Chicago is home to three other buildings more than 1,000 feet tall: the Aon Center, the John Hancock Center, and the AT&T Corporate Center. A fourth, Two Prudential Plaza, misses the cut by only 5 feet.
  • Laws dictate that no structure in the District of Columbia can stand taller than the 555-foot-tall Washington Monument.
  • When viewing a list of the 20 tallest buildings on Earth, the Empire State Building stands out because of its age. The structure was completed in 1931, nearly 40 years before the next-oldest skyscraper on the list.
  • The height of the Empire State Building stretches from 1,250 feet to 1,455 feet when you include its antenna. At the very top is a mast that was intended to anchor dirigibles but was never used for that purpose.

Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
11-17 
American Education Week ►Geography Awareness Week ►National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week
12-18  
National Global Entrepreneurship Week ►World Kindness Week ►National Young Reader's Week

Today Is                                                                      
International Girls Day
Loosen Up, Lighten Up Day
National American Teddy Bear Day
National Educational Support Professionals Day
Operation Room Nurse Day
Spirit of NSA (National Speakers Association) Day
Universal Children's Day
World Diabetes Day
World Orphans Day
~India Children's Day
Today’s Events through History  
1st streetcar (horse-drawn) (John Mason) debuts in NYC; fare 12 cents rode on 
     4th Avenue between Prince and 14th Sts—1832
Afghan Northern Alliance fighters takeover the capital Kabul—2001
Belgium threatens to leave UN due to criticism on its Congo-policy—1960
Communist Party of Spain is founded—1921
Don Shula becomes winningest coach in NFL history—1993
Doubleday Publishing sells NY Mets to Nelson Doubleday & Fred Wilpon—1986
Henry Aaron wins NL MVP—1957
Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane), New York World reporter, began her attempt 
     to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling 
     around world in less than 80 days She succeeded, finishing the trip in 
     January in 72 days and 6 hours—1889
Paul 'Bear' Bryant ties Amos Alonzo Stagg with 314 football wins—1981
Pizarro's begins 1st great expedition, near Colombia—1524
Samuel Pepys reports on 1st blood transfusion (between dogs) —1666
The last direct-current distribution by Con Edison was shut down—2007

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
In their 60’s
P J O'Rourke, writer (Easy Money) is 65
In their 50’s
Condoleezza Rice, United States Secretary of State is 58
D B Sweeney, actor (Cutting Edge, Fire in the Sky, Day in October) is 51
Yanni, new age musician (Live at the Acropolis, Sand Dance) is 58
In their 40’s
Josh Duhamel, actor(Transformers)is 40
Curt Schilling, Anchorage AK, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies) is 46
Remembered for being born today
Rosemary DeCamp, Prescott Az, actress (Love That Bob, That Girl) (1910-2001)
Mamie G Doud Eisenhower, 1st lady (1896-1979)
Robert Fulton, Little Britain, Pen., inventor and engineer (1st commercial 
    steamboat), (1765-1815)
Veronica Lake, [Constance Ockleman], actress (I Married a Witch) (1922-1973)
Joseph R McCarthy, (Sen-R-Wisc), anti-communist (1908-1957)
Claude Monet, Paris, impressionist (Water Lilies), (1840-1926)
Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Indian PM (1889-1964)
Dick Powell, Mt View Ark, actor (Cry Danger, Dick Powell Theater) (1904-1963)
Sherwood Schwartz, Passaic NJ, TV creator (Brady Bunch, Gilligan Is) (1916-2011)
Ray Sharkey, Brooklyn NY, actor (Wise Guys, Wired, Caged Fear) (1952-1993)
McLean Stevenson, Normal Ill, actor (M*A*S*H, Hello Larry) (1929-1996)
Adam Walsh, American murder victim (America’s Most Wanted) (1974-1981)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
Jacobus Houbraken, engraver/illustrator—1780—at 81
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acarya of ISKCON—1977—at 81
T'ai tsu, emperor of China/founder of Sung-dynasty—976—at 49
Robert Trout, American journalist—2000—at 91
Booker T Washington, educator/organizer— hypertension—1915—at 59

Answer: Anagram sentence
It wasn't the nicest thing the entomologist said, but at least we learned sometimes incest occurred in the insect world.
Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site has mistakes and sadly once out the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
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